Brooks-Lint

v0.9.1 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 3mo Developer Productivity

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ai-code-review architecture-review auto-fix claude claude-code claude-code-plugin

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clean-architecture code-health code-quality code-review code-smells codex-cli-plugin developer-tools gemini-cli-extension llm refactoring skills static-analysis tech-debt test-quality

Summary

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Skill guides deepened and trigger boundaries clarified to reduce false positives.

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What's new

Deeper diagnostics

Each of the four skill guides has been substantially deepened:

PR Review — analysis now adapts to PR size (scope calibration table); Dependency Disorder and Domain Model Distortion are scanned as independent steps; severity assignments now reference per-risk guides with an explicit tiebreaker rule.

Architecture Audit — new Step 5 scans for missing or collapsed testability seams (places where behavior can be altered without editing source code). Based on Feathers's Seam Model from Working Effectively with Legacy Code. Conway's Law check now includes calibration examples for all three severity tiers.

Tech Debt Assessment — Pain and Spread scores now have concrete calibration examples. New Step 2b classifies each finding as intentional vs accidental debt (Ward Cunningham's original definition). Debt Summary Table gains an Intent column.

Test Quality Review — Test Brittleness and Mock Abuse are now scanned as separate steps with per-step severity thresholds. Characterization Test template added with inline usage guidance. Test suite performance structured into three tiers (>10 min, >30 min, unknown).

More accurate triggering

All four skill trigger descriptions rewritten in natural language and given explicit "Do NOT trigger for:" boundaries. This fixes known false-trigger cases:

brooks-debt no longer fires on HTTP /health endpoint questions
brooks-test no longer fires on "how do I write a test?" questions
brooks-review no longer fires on language syntax or from-scratch code questions

Coverage additions

Two Change Propagation concepts are now explicitly named (previously buried):

Hyrum's Law — implicit API contracts created by observable behavior
Orthogonality violation — feature changes rippling into unrelated dimensions

Upgrading

# Claude Code
/plugin install brooks-lint@brooks-lint-marketplace

# Codex CLI — re-run your existing install command
# Gemini CLI
gemini skills reload

No configuration changes required. Existing .brooks-lint.yaml files are fully compatible.

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